In 1987 I saw a face in the sky. It happened one stormy spring day after my husband was late getting back from a trip the night before. He had gone to a university about 3 hours away to do research with several of his students, and I thought he would be home earlier in the evening. But he didn't arrive home until 3:00 a.m. as they had computer problems and couldn't leave until around midnight.

This was before we had a cell phone, and because he couldn't call me, I felt sure something terrible had happened that night. So between midnight and 3:00 a.m., I knelt by my bed and prayed for his safety like I had never prayed before. It was like I turned my soul inside out and, as a result, I was beyond words when my husband did arrive home.

Then all throughout the next day I felt strange, like I had been washed out on the inside or something like that. The weather that day was very inclement, with wind and rain. Around 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., I suddenly got up from the sofa and told my husband I was going to check the conditions outside. At the kitchen door, we could see only a small part of the sky as there were tall trees blocking most of our view.

But in that very place in the sky, there was a definite face (and nothing else) made from a cloud and covering most of that area. It had a nose and beard and all the other distinctive facial and head features. The face was turned slightly to one side, and there were eyes somehow made from a break in the clouds that, for lack of a better word, pulsed down at me. I was shocked that the face was so clear and unmistakable, and that I had arrived at the door just in time to see it.

So I called my husband and my daughter to come see it, and they both confirmed that it was indeed a face. After they, both obviously touched, left to go back to the living room, I stood there at the door watching to see what would happen. Suddenly it was as though someone took an eraser and started wiping the face away from the bottom up, leaving the sky clear again in that area.

I know beyond a doubt that that face was meant for me, as a confirmation from God that he knows me and knows where I am located, because for hours afterwards I felt an electrical energy tingling all over my body. I have, however, wondered many times over these intervening years whether anyone else saw the face, and what they thought of it, or whether I and my family, alone, were the only viewers.

I like to think that this was the face of God, and even now, twenty years later, I still feel awe realizing that I am loved enough for God to manifest himself to me in the way that he did. He not only answered my prayer and brought my husband home safely, but he also gave me a visual sign that there is definitely something wonderful beyond our five senses that we can touch through prayer and meditation.

Pat Hackett, Tennessee
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Posted 5-25-07